Chubby

Definition: Chubby

Chubby

Adjective

1. Euphemisms for slightly fat; "a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular"- Robt.A.Hamilton; "chubby babies"; "pleasingly plump".

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Date "chubby" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1792. (references)

Slang in 1811

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Synonyms: Chubby

Size

Corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing; portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown; corn fed, gram fed; stalwart, brawny, fleshy; goodly; in good case, in good condition; in condition; chopping, jolly; chub faced, chubby faced.

Crosswords: Chubby

Major Chubby. (Vampires; writing credit: Don Jakoby)

You take that chubby boy with you today (Deliverance; writing credit: James Dickey)

And here I thought she was merely getting chubby without the ring master's whip to keep her in shape (Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn; writing credit: Verónica Suárez)

A rose can say "I Love You"... Orchids can enthrall… But a weed bouquet in a chubby fist, OH MY that says it all! (references; author: unknown)

Chubby Takes a Hand (1917)

Roy Chubby Brown: Standing Room Only (2002)

Chubby Cherub (1986)

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Books

• Baby Toys (Super Chubby Photo Board Book) (reference)

• Cars and Trucks (Super Chubby) (reference)

• Chubby Engine (reference)

• Dear Santa, (A Chubby Board Book) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Chubby Checker - Greatest Hits (reference)

• Fortieth Anniversary of Chubby Checker's Greatest (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Entertainers (l to r) Conway Twitty, Chubby Checker, Dick Clark, full-length portrait, facing front, doing "the Twist", a dance. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Strong, freckled arms were bare to the elbow, and her hands were chubby and delicate, like those of a plump little girl

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Expressions using "chubby": chubby cheeks ♦ chubby faced. Additional references.

Beginning with "chubby": chubby-chaser, chubby-cheeked, chubby-faced.

Albanian

topolak (roly poly), faqehënë, buç. (various references)

Arabic 

‏ريان (succulent), ‏ربيل, ‏بدين (beefy, corpulent, fatty, fleshy, hefty, obese, overblown, overweight, plump, portly, puffy, replete, rotund, squabby, stout, tubby). (various references)

Bulgarian 

пълничък (fleshy, plump, rotund, well upholstered, well-padded, well-rounded). (various references)

Chinese 

胖. (various references)

Czech

obtloustlý, buclatý (plump). (various references)

Farsi 

پهن رخسار, چاق (Fat, Lob, Obese, Overweight, Pudgy, Replete, Tubby), گوشتالو (Corpulent, Obese, Plump, Plumpish, Pudgy, Pulpy, Rotund), خپله (Dumpy, Pudgy, Rotund, Squab, Squatty, Stump). (various references)

Finnish

pullea (plump). (various references)

French

rondelet, poupin, potelé, joufflu (chubby faced), gros (churl). (various references)

German

voll (bang, bombed out, brimful, canned, complete, completely, fraught, full, fully, integral, mellow, plastered, plenary, plenteous, plenteously, plentiful, plump, replete, repletely, rich, ripe, rotund, slewed, solid, thick, thorough, undiluted, undivided, unqualified, whole), rundlich (chubbily, plump, podgy, rotund, rounded, roundish), rund (about, flatly, full, globular, mellow, plump, rotund, roughly, round, roundly), pummlig (lumpy, plump, podgy, tubby), pummelig (lumpy, plump, podgy, tubby), prall (billowing, bulging, collision, firm, full, hard, plump, plumply, swollen, well-rounded), pausbäckig (chubby faced, chubby-cheeked), mollig (cozy, plump, snug). (various references)

Greek 

κοντόχονδροσ (chanky, dumpy, podgy, pudgy, roly poly, squab, squat, squatty, stocky, stumpy, tubby), στρουμπουλόσ (plump), παχουλόσ (plump). (various references)

Hebrew 

שמ� מן (adipose, corpulent, fattish, plump, portly, pudgy, rotund, stout). (various references)

Hungarian

pufók (blowzy, rotund). (various references)

Indonesian

cembung (convex, dome shaped, gibbous), sintal (plump), montok (buxom, curvaceous, plump). (various references)

Italian

paffuto (plump, puffy, round), grossolano (coarse, common, crass, dirty, earthy, gross, lowbrow, ungraceful), grassoccio (plump, podgy, pudgy, pudsy, round, squab). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

デフォルト値 (debris, default value, defense condition, deflation, deflationary gap, defroster, depression, depth interview, developer, development, distortion, fat), ぽたぽた落ちる (bit by bit, cloop, crunching sound, dabble in water, fat, having just ..., in large drops, merely, piece by piece, pimples, plop, plump, pop, splash water, spots, to drip down, to fall in drops, to trickle down, trickle down in thick drops, with a pop), 太った (fat, plump), 太り肉 (corpulent, fat), 丸丸と太った (plump, rotund). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

デブ (fat), まるまるとふとった (plump, rotund), ぽちゃぽちゃ (dabble in water, plump, splash water), ふとった (fat, plump, stout), ふとりじし (corpulent, fat). (various references)

Korean 

통통한. (various references)

Manx

puissagh (buccal, plump-cheeked, pouting, puffed out, puffy, sullen), gaillagh (gourmand). (various references)

Norwegian

lubben. (various references)

Pig Latin

ubbychay.(various references)

Portuguese

gordo (bold, chuffy, corpulent, dumpy, fat, gross, loamy, obese, overweight, porky, purse, pursy, squabby, thick), bochechudo (apple-cheeked, cheeky, fubsy). (various references)

Romanian

durduliu (buxom, plump, podgy, puffy), dolofan (plump), bucãlat (chubby-cheeked, plump). (various references)

Russian 

круглолицый (moonfaced). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

debeljuškast (fattish, pudgy, roly poly), bucmast. (various references)

Spanish

regordete (dumpy, fattish, roly poly, roundish, squab, squabby). (various references)

Swedish

tjock (bold, chunky, corpulent, dense, fat, fleshly, fleshy, thick), knubbig (bonny, plump, podgy, pudgy, roly poly, tubby). (various references)

Thai

กลม (spherical). (various references)

Turkish

tombul (elephantine, fat, fatty, fleshy, plump, porky, pudgy, roly poly, rotund, roundabout, sonsy, well-rounded), hantal (bulky, clumsy, cumbersome, cumbrous, elephantine, gross, hulking, hulky, loutish, lubber, lumbering, lumpish, plodding, ponderous, rude, sesquipedalian, soggy, stodgy, ungainly, ungraceful, unwieldy, yahoo), dolgun (buxom, fat, goodly, lined, plump, sonorous, succulent, well-rounded), ablak. (various references)

Turkmen 

pцkgi (ball, plump), lopbush (plump). (various references)

Ukrainian

кругловидий, круглолиций, повнощокий, повновидий. (various references)

Vietnamese 

mập mạp (rotund, roundabout, stout), mũm mĩm. (various references)

Misspellings

"Chubby" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chabi, chibi, chobby, chubbly, Chubbs, chuby, Echibey, Kebby, khutba. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cubby, hubby.

-2 letters: chub, yuch.

-3 letters: bub, buy, cub, hub.

-4 letters: by, uh.

+2 letters: chubbily.

+3 letters: cubbyhole.

+4 letters: bunchberry, cubbyholes.